This week marks the first time in at least 2 months that I've felt good. Not ok, but really good. I spent much of the last two months trying desperately to funnel enough caffiene and sugar through my body to function. My house suffered, my yard suffered, and I made sure everyone around me suffer--though hopefully not too much. The hidden upside to going through cancer treatment is it really makes me appreciate this point, Feeling Good Again. It's when you wake up in the morning and think you've just gotten a new lease on life. So appropriately my theme song for this week, and maybe this whole month, is Robert Earl Keen's Feeling Good Again. How fitting that he's swinging back into town for a show at Variety on May 16th. Like Robert Earl says, It feels so good feelin good again.
Feeling good also means I can once again appreciate some of the creative exploits people post on the internet. It's no secret that I completely dug The Muppet Show as a kid. They were on every afternoon and they were funny. The Muppets didn't try to shove education down your throat with stupid parlor tricks. The shows weren't Brought to You By The Letter 'P' and there was no segment requiring you to slowly count 5 items over and over again. The Muppets were about entertainment, complete with musical guests. It was Saturday Night Live for the first-grade set. The movies, they were a little lame. But the TV show was the best thing on in the afternoon. What else could make a 6-year-old understand that Harry Belafonte was...cool? Well here is an updated trip down nostolgia lane. A trailer showing what might have happened if Jim Henson, rather than Quentin Tarantino, had directed Pulp Fiction. Yes, the fountains of blood are missing, but otherwise I say Spot On!